by [email protected] | May 16, 2022 | East Side
MLK Statue for Martin Luther King, Jr. Park (originally The Parade) Completed by the African American sculptor John Woodrow Wilson, the addition of a large-scale bust of Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. is representative of a long history of place- making...
by [email protected] | May 16, 2022 | East Side
Fillmore Movie Theater 681 Fillmore Avenue The Fillmore Avenue Movie Theater was among the first amenities to emerge as growing neighborhoods across the East Side came to resemble self-sufficient villages within the expanding city, each with its own stores, houses of...
by [email protected] | May 16, 2022 | East Side
War Memorial Stadium (later Johnny B. Wiley Pavilion) Now the city’s premier African American neighborhood, Buffalo’s East Side was originally home to several of the city’s white ethnic immigrant communities from its founding to the mid-twentieth century. This col-...
by [email protected] | May 16, 2022 | East Side
Mary Talbert House 521 Michigan Avenue Mary Burnett Talbert was an American orator, activist, suffragist, and reformer. Talbert was educated at Oberlin college at a time when it was controversial for any woman, let alone a woman of color, to receive such honors. She...
by [email protected] | May 16, 2022 | East Side
Fitch Creche Day Care for Young Children of Working Mothers 159 Swan Street The Fitch Crèche, nationally recognized as the first day care center for the children of working women in the United States, served as a model to be emu- lated by other American cities....
by [email protected] | May 16, 2022 | East Side
Eliza Quirk House 72 Sycamore Street The Eliza Quirk House was a pre-Civil War boarding house designed and constructed circa 1848 for its original owner, Eliza Quirk, a well-known courtesan, who occupied the building until her death in 1868. The structure is a simple,...
